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Mukhtar Aliyev (; February 2, 1933, Tyumen-Aryk station — January 12, 2015, Almaty) was a Soviet and Kazakh surgeon, Doctor of Medical Sciences (1974), founder of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan (1995), and
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(1995).


Biography

Born in Tyumen-Aryk, Janakorgan District,
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on February 2, 1933. Mukhtar Aliyev graduated from Turkestan Teacher Training College in 1950 and taught at a village school in Timur, Chymkent region, for a year. In 1951, he enrolled at Alma-Ata State Medical Institute. Upon graduation, he started his medical career as a surgeon in a village hospital. Having completed his doctoral studies in Almaty and received a scientific degree of assistant professor, he became the chief surgeon of the Ministry of Health of the
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, and later became the head of the ministry. In 1998, he founded and became the first president of the International Academy of Medical Sciences (
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). He also headed the Research Institute of Clinical and Experimental Surgery and Scientific Center of Surgery named after A. N. Syzganov. During his career as a surgeon, Mukhtar Aliyev performed 16,000 surgeries. Aliyev's name is inextricably linked to the achievements of Kazakhstani thoracic, abdominal, vascular and microsurgery, he made a major contribution to healthcare in Kazakhstan. He was the first surgeon in the country to perform over 50 surgeryaorto-coronary bypasses at ischemic heart disease. He was also the first to conduct endoscopic removal of gall bladders, ovarian cysts, adrenal glands and Mukhtar Aliyev also initiated founding of the Republican Organ Transplantation Center. Under Aliyev's supervision, 70 doctoral dissertations and 83 PhD theses were defended. He authored 970 scientific works, including 59 monographs, and held 155 certificates of authorship. 18 employees of the Scientific Center of Surgery have been awarded state prizes. He was elected a deputy of the Supreme Council three times. On his initiative, draft laws "On the protection of the health of the people", "On medical insurance", "Sanitary Code" were developed. In early 2008 Mukhtar Aliyev went to
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to have his heart operated, and turned to the embassy of Kazakhstan in
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in May 2008 stating that his son Rakhat was keeping him from returning home. He returned to Kazakhstan in October 2009. Aliyev died of heart disease aged 81 on January 12, 2015. He was buried at the Kensai Cemetery in Almaty.


Family

* Wife - Minavar Aliyeva; * Son —
Rakhat Aliyev Rakhat Mukhtaruly Aliyev (, ''Rahat Mūhtarūly Äliev''; 10 December 1961 – 24 February 2015) was a Kazakh politician and diplomat, who died in an Austrian prison awaiting trial on charges of murder. His trial was planned to start in Vienna i ...
, ex-husband of
Dariga Nazarbayeva Dariğa Nūrsūltanqyzy Nazarbaeva (; born 7 May 1963) is a Kazakh businesswoman and politician who is the daughter of Nursultan Nazarbayev who was the President of Kazakhstan from 1990 to 2019. She was a member of the Mäjilis from 2004 to 200 ...
; * Daughter — Gulshat Mukhtarovna Khorani (nee — Alieva), married to Lebanese businessman Issam Solah Khorani.


Publications

''Books by Mukhtar Aliyev'': * Arterial Plasticity in Combined Radiolesion (1979); * Diagnostic and Surgical Thoracoscopy (1988); * Diagnostics and Treatment of Esophageal Lesions (1991); * The immunity in surgery of the ulcer disease (1991); * Adequacy of General Anesthesia (1992); * The clinical microsurgery (1994); * A Surgeon's Manual (1997); * Surgery Handbook (1997).


Awards

* People's Hero of Kazakhstan (1995); * Order of Otan (1995); * Veteran of Labour award (1987); * Medal 2000 intellectuals of the 21st Century (2001); * 500 Founders of the 21st Century Gold Medal (IBC, Cambridge, England, 2001).


References


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* * {{Authority control 1933 births Heroes of Kazakhstan People's commissars and ministers of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic 2015 deaths